Chapter 693 – The Evolution of an Adulterer

Over there, Liu Wanxi straightened her eyes and watched that shopkeeper’s face ashen with pain and regret, even she felt that Duke An’s face slapping was sound, but she didn’t expect it to be such a reversal.

Xue Mu laughed: ”You all recognized Duke An’s fabrics and workmanship, the other Curious Treasures Pavilion’s shopkeeper has seen a lot of things, so of course there’s no reason he can’t recognize them as well. In fact, there is no need to look at the fabric, the playboy has his own distinctive temperament, and I’m afraid that these jianghu merchants can see it at a glance, and immediately formulate a strategy to maximize the money they can pull out of these gentlemen’s hands. As for the loss of face to them what, the vertical and horizontal road but for the money even father can shout, face is worth a few money a catty?”

Liu Wanxi cried and laughed: “What about dismissal?”

“This shopkeeper is definitely under the banner of Zongheng Dao, a sect’s son, how can he be fired because of this bit of crap? Some other day, Mr. An saw him sitting here again, so what, the vertical and horizontal road hall magic four, and is now the main force of the six alliance, so that An Guo Gong himself to come over have to uncover this small beam, he a son of a man is not only can only admit it?”

“This gongzi has eyes like a torch.” The voice of that Vertical and Horizontal Dao deacon rang out, striding over towards them, smiling, “The gentleman’s insight is extraordinary, I don’t know his high name, let’s make a friend.”

“Exempt.” Xue Mu habitually drew out his folding fan and patted the palm of his hand as he laughed, “Making friends with the Vertical and Horizontal Dao, I don’t know when I’ll be sold and still help you guys count the money.”

That deacon laughed, “We’re not the Deceiving Heaven Sect.”

Xue Mu laughed, “Wasn’t this routine just now the Way of Deceiving the Heavens?”

That deacon shook his head, “Just now, this can only be considered agitation, not fraud. In fact, even if it is fraud, there’s no harm in it, the Dao is the Dao and the techniques are the techniques, and the techniques of deceiving the Heavens that our alliance masters have used aren’t too few, and they have nothing to do with the Dao. We use fraud to make money, and it’s only one of the many means of making money, if other means are more profitable, the so-called fraud we can immediately abandon as if it were our own, how can we be confused with the Deceiving Heaven Sect that uses this as the Dao?”

Xue Mu sized him up for a while and asked, “What is your name?”

“Vertical and Horizontal Dao Jinggi Steward Xiang Qianjin, meet Your Excellency and Madam.” Xiang Qianjin smiled and said, “More friends, more roads, why don’t you go into the inner room for a cup of tea?”

Xue Mu didn’t refuse this time and returned a bow with Liu Wanxi in tow, “Then I’ll be intruding.”

Xue Mu was doubtful that this bastard recognized him. To be able to be the Jinggi Steward of the Zongheng Dao, and a top-level senior of the Zongheng Dao on the same level as Lin Dongsheng, don’t look at the funny name, this talk and insight was obviously different from the average person. After all, one’s own acting skills may not be hidden from these people, being recognized is not surprising.

In fact, observing from this face-slapping set, it can really be seen that the mode of the Horizontal Road has changed, and more began to utilize the advantages of their own position, instead of always working on some low-level counterfeiting. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of what exactly some of the changes in the business mindset of the Vertical and Horizontal Road were.

“The name of this tea is Yipin Qinggui, it is a new tea formula given to our family ally by the Medical Sage, and it was just successfully made not long ago.” Xiang Qianjin very skillfully brewed the kung fu tea, shared a cup with Xue Mu Liu Wanxi Eunuch Li, and laughed, “Everyone taste it.”

The price of this tea was definitely more expensive than gold, and it should never be used to entertain a stranger meeting for the first time. Xue Mu and Liu Wanxi glanced at each other and didn’t pretend to be polite anymore, smiling in unison as they leisurely sipped the tea. Eunuch Li, on the other hand, customarily waited for Liu Wanxi to start drinking before he raised his cup to take a sip.

Seeing the two people sipping tea and Eunuch Li’s reaction, Xiang Qianjin’s eyes flashed with joy and laughed: “It’s just that all of you don’t want to be named, if Xiang’s pair of strokes aren’t blind, all of you must be prominent officials and dignitaries, and your status is by no means lower than that Duke An’s just now.”

Xue Mu laughed, “Is that why you’re being so friendly to us? By the way, Duke An’s status is already prominent in the capital, so why would Your Excellency offend him and instead come to climb the ladder with us, who are meeting for the first time?”

“Duke An’s so-called eminent nobility ……” to Qian Jin with a slight smile, “Do you two know what he bought that what jade pen for?”

Liu Wanxi wondered, “That’s really unknown.”

“As far as I know, he played well in the masked tournament and made it to the semi-finals. This one is about to be used to bribe Reporter Li, wanting to give him more rendering on the report.” Xiang Qianjin said disdainfully, “Reporter Li is the publicity mouthpiece that our ally relies on as an arm, how could he be bribed by this little thing? Not on the spot to dump his face is good, this goods really do not have a point in the heart.”

“……” Xue Mu would like to say Lai Xiaorui this guy is so high-end? How I do not feel eh ……

Xiang Qianjin added: “So he this kind of goods what can be noble …… not to mention that the Hundred Years of Relatives do not take power, it is just like the name of this tea, just noble, not much use. Today’s empress has high aspirations, these days promoted a large number of practical officials, are the states and counties of the prestigious and capable ministers, mobilized into the capital. Given the situation, it’s not yet known how long those assholes will be able to get away with it, so why bother working on them.”

Liu Wanxi laughed, “So you’re treating us as His Majesty’s newly promoted heavyweights?”

“Is it not? The Beijing division this kind of temperament of the raw face is not much, two tea sipping posture of elegance is not quite like a martial artist origin, the body cultivation looks not high …… not to mention that there is also a housekeeper by the side. In addition to the new capital minister, there is no other possibility.”

Liu Wanxi laughed: “As far as I know, your vertical and horizontal road is now responsible for the whole alliance business cooperation, your business is your alliance’s business. And your alliance’s Xue Alliance Master is so powerful that he’s not much different from the Regent nowadays… Why would Steward Xiang need to befriend any powerful people when he has such a hard backer?”

Xiang Qianjin smiled more and more, “Mister Xiang has already said that more friends lead to more paths. Although Zongheng Dao is responsible for the entire alliance’s commerce, its own family also has its own small business, and the alliance master does not interfere with each family’s self-running. We can’t possibly go all the way to trouble our alliance master for any of our own business.”

Xue Mu nodded, indeed each family had their own development as usual, his Alliance of the Six Paths was not a parallel faction, and there was no problem at all with the argument of advancing towards money. It seems like it still wants to take the route of collusion between government and business?

Xiang Qianjin also said: “You don’t have to suspect that to a certain person is trying to buy officials to engage in what illegal and disorderly activities. To be honest, what we want to do in Zongheng Dao is definitely something that the Queen and our alliance masters would like to see.”

Xue Mu became interested: “I’d like to hear more.”

“Nowadays, the capital is depressed, all industries are waiting to be revitalized, and Yi Prefecture is even more of a blank slate, so we need to re-promote farming and mulberry cultivation everywhere to build up the place. Now that the Empress has gathered her capable ministers, she will surely begin to develop people’s livelihoods across the board, we only need to know where the Empress intends to start first, so that we can make preparations in advance. For example, if the Queen intends to promote agriculture first, we can prepare grain seeds first; if she intends to build first, we can prepare stone and wood first, and so on. This is endless money. We’re just seizing the first opportunity instead of hoarding, and although we’re also trying to make money for ourselves, we’ll only make the Empress’s new government more efficient, and we’ll never mess it up.”

Xue Mu froze for half a day, this Nima has already learned to take the policy wind route ah …… have to admire the self evolution of the natives, they will make the most favorable adjustments according to the current situation and the changes in their own status, a lot of things simply do not need him as a traverser to set a precedent.

Although it still violates the principle of fair business treacherous way, but this world this era you go to force what fair would have been very unrealistic, especially for a not so long ago is still making and selling counterfeits in order to second-best hoarders of treacherous business way, evolution into this direction is simply the luck of the heavens, OK……